So this time I'm going through all the pictures I've chosen and the ideas I'm trying to represent and actually bringing them together, adding short pieces of text to guide the viewer's mind down the path I'd like them to consider. The text is particularly important because of the metaphorical, abstract nature of the images' meanings. Many of the images rely on readymade symbols from our culture to help construct the meanings, and the text ensures that the viewer pull out the intended meaning rather that the many others that are possible. Applying pictures, particularly photographs to the abstract idea of the writing process solidifies it, takes it from being ephemeral and personal to something more distinct and universal. All the images are ones taken by either myself or my sister, with the exception of the stock images that comprise the gryphon in the second image, and those were found some time ago under creative commons share alike, and I had put them together for a digital design class. I use the gryphon here to defamiliarize the pond scene and represent how it could be the most random thought that starts a writing project. from there the images proceed unaltered until the black and white pictures accompanying the brick wall, those I desaturated to express the despairing, lackluster feeling of that part of the cycle. I'm toying with the idea of desaturating the brick as well but I'm not sure that will have the desired effect. The last few captions yet lack images as I'm not sure that I have appropriate pictures to accompany, I may have to take some more.
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